She Can Say 'Mama'!

I cannot believe I forgot to tell you this...Kate said 'Mama', clear as a bell. She has tried to say it before, once in a while, but it usually comes out ah-ma or something similar. When she was being wheeled to her room, and was not even 100% conscious, she was saying mama, mama. I couldn't believe it. On Saturday she was crying and saying, Mama! Mama! It's amazing how your top lip actually coming into full contact with your bottom lip can make a difference!! (She also signed it perfectly at the same time...not like usual with her fist, or pointing at her chin, but with her hand completely open, her thumb touching her chin...looking right at me. Way to bond, Kate! Woohoo! :) She has also said Ligh (for light) and ni-nigh...both of which you need an upper, middle palate to form the words. I've told her how to say light (after she points to it, and usually says uh-uh) 100 times, but it wasn't until this weekend that she repeated it...less than 48 hours after her palate surgery. Wow. We now have 3 words in our repetoire...Mama, light, and night-night. Those are good words.



Update: The icky strip under her nose fell off in the middle of the night. Yahoo! After a shower, I got a good look at her stitches. It kind of looks like a 'T'. One going down, and one across, under her nose. The picture is of her before a new strip went back on.

Oh, and I also forgot to tell you what the doctor said after her surgery...Her lip had been fixed before! No, I'm not kidding. It had been fixed, and reopened, and they didn't take her back in. They failed to mention this to us in China. Maybe they thought we already knew, but it was not in her file.